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The Right Choice

Typically, when it comes to difficult decisions, I’m pretty stellar at making the wrong one. Actually, that may be my superpower. Still, that’s precisely what we were facing the morning of May 9, 2022. We had just learned of the passing of Ray Scott. We were preparing to go to print with the July/August issue of your magazine, which always features the annual 100 Best Bass

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